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Ideas to Reduce Noise
September 2015 ∘ Tool

This tool provides healthcare designers and professionals with ideas on how to address the issue of noise in facility design.
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Project Brief

Focus on Interior and Wayfinding Enhances Hospital Campus Expansion
August 2015 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: harnessing the healing power of nature inside and out, the ways the hospital and design team incorporated the patient’s point of view, and the design that achieved a cohesive campus with improved wayfinding and places for respite.
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High-Risk Obstetrics Unit Incorporates Homelike Features
August 2015 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: design solutions for a new birthing unit, process mapping and mock-ups that enabled scenario tests of the new space, and input from staff, physicians, and families used to inform the project.
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Acoustical Wall Treatment Helps Improve HCAHPS Scores for Patient Satisfaction in ED Pilot
August 2015 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how one hospital’s emergency room pilot project increased patient satisfaction, the standards developed post-pilot to decrease noise transfer to other areas of the hospital, and why having design changes on paper may not be enough.
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Multi-Phase Approach Achieves Culture of Quiet
October 2014 ∘ Project Brief

Learn about: how St. Mary's Hospital targeted noise reduction goals for their cardiac care unit, about onsite sound measurements that informed material selection, and about design changes that resulted in reduced noise from the highest sources of sound.